Karolle Wall
Karolle Wall developed her first roll of film as a young teenager, in
the family darkroom, somewhere north of Montreal,
in the midst of the
FLQ crisis and the War Measure`s Act. Had she thought of it first,
she undoubtedly would have
come up with a film like No. Instead, she
gave up the smell of developer for the finer chemicals associated
with boat building, cabinet making, and child rearing. When the
fumes got too much for her health, she turned to
her love of
literature, writing, the arts, nature, landscape, the sea, and sailing.
Throughout it all, photography remained a hobby, a love,
and a passion lying in wait for the chemical-free virtual darkroom.
Over the past five years, it has become a serious affliction, one
that has culminated in several exhibitions, and a penchant
for making
her pictures move.
Karolle is an Associate Professor at Emily Carr
Institute – originally hired to teach literature and writing. It has taken a while,
but her colleagues now refer to her as that
photographer/filmmaker who used to write and now teaches
Environmental Ethics.
The images here reflect her aesthetic
appreciation of all things old, her love of machinery, boats, the
natural world and water.
They express her desire to see life and its
objects regenerate, to live on, even if nature and humankind have something different
in mind. For her, photography is a way of
getting a feel for this place, this planet we call home, a way of
reminding her viewer
of what will be lost, what can still be saved.
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